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fore wings, and clouded with blackish towards tornus ; traces of a 

 pale subterminal line. Fringes preceded by an interrupted line of 

 black lunules. Under side ochreous l^rown, powdered with blackish ; 

 all the wings have a black discal spot, and a dentate postmedial line 

 also blackish. 



Expanse, 34 millim., S ', 36 millim., 5 . 



A male specimen from Arizan (7500 ft.), September, 1906; 

 and a female from the same locality, August, 1908. 



Collection number, 800. 



Hemerophila cuneilinearia, sp. n. 



<? . Pale cinnamon-brown, striated and mottled with darker. 

 Fore wings with two pale-edged blackish lines, the antemedial which 

 is sinuous, bidentate towards the costa, commences near middle of 

 costa, and terminates on dorsum at one-fourth from base; the post- 

 medial is acutely angled below the costa and from this angle a 

 blackish streak runs to termen below apex, the middle of the line is 

 bent inwards towards the antemedial ; space enclosed by lines 

 greyish. Hind wings finely striated with blackish on basal two- 

 thirds ; outer third suffused with reddish brown ; postmedial line 

 blackish, slender, sinuate, internally edged with whitish ; subter- 

 minal line pale, outwardly edged with dark brown, wavy. Under side 

 pale greyish bi'own, speckled with dark brown and blackish ; all the 

 wings have a black discal spot at end of cell, and a series of black 

 dots representing postmedial line. 



5 . Similar to the male, but the central third of fore wings is 

 suffused with blackish, and the ante- and postmedial lines are conse- 

 quently obscured ; the black striation on hind wings is heavier. 



Expanse, 46 millim. 



One example of each sex from Kanshirei (1000 ft.). The female 

 obtained in May, and the male in June, 1908. 



Collection number, 798. 



Allied to H. subplagiata, Walk. 



(To be continued.) 



BY THE WAY. 



" Notice. — Sugaring on Trees is Prohibited. By Order," is 

 a legend erected high on a venerable oak of Queen's Bower, in 

 the New Forest, and probably unique among the many warnings 

 to wanderers throughout the world. We remember that Herbert 

 Goss had something to say respecting the legality of a prohibition 

 which could relate to damage only in so far that lepidopterist 

 sugar might be supposed to disfigure trees. However the law 

 may run, it is certain that permission to sugar has, we are told, 

 been categorically denied recent applicants by Mr. Lascelles, and 

 that the keepers have orders to "clay" all fresh treaclings. 

 During the festivities of last month entomologists foregathered 

 about Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst, but the cold winds of the 



